Maurice Mierau’s non-fiction book, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir, will appear with Freehand in fall 2014. The poems here are from Six, which will be out in 2015 with Palimpsest. Mierau edits the online magazine The Winnipeg Review.

This piece was published in ‘Poetry Only,’ the Spring 2014 issue of CV2.

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